Deep fried and served out by the recycled condensed milk tin on the road-side, who can resist these tasy crickets and beetles? Well, about 30 people judging by our bus load of mainly locals. There was one chap though who tucked into a big bag of beetles, the secret being that you flick off the [...]

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You’ll want food for the eight hour trip to Battambang, the most beautiful boat trip in Cambodia. Plenty of locals will hassle you to buy French sticks bananas and water. The tiny bananas are delicious. But whatever you don’t don’t sit on the roof unless you want a very pink sore evening.

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Take one thich segment of bamboo. Add rice, beans and coconut milk. Stuff the top with rice hay and place in embers until cooked. When cool, peel away the bamboo on one side. Remove the plug of hay and pick out the rice and beans with your fingers. These are available all along the roadside. [...]

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I’m back on street food and the BBQ snake looks particularly good. These look like little bears but are actually frogs. Not today as I ate a ponds worth yesterday. The snake comes with a salt and pepper mix, fresh herbs and limes. I chew on the skin and it does taste good. Why shouldn’t [...]

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Now I really do know the meaning of green papaya salad at the Srassrang View Restaurant near Angkor Wat. You’ve been working in the fields all day – or as I have cycling 40km along hot dusty roads. Your mouth is dry, your mind weak and the body is tired. Green papaya has everything you [...]

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Air conditioned and with free wireless internet: The Blue Pumpkin, Siem Reap. Very cool in both senses. This is civilisation. Fresh spring rolls. Top notch cocktails, mine a rice liquor concoction with lemongrass and star anise; Jak’s a margarita. Oh yes, and that thing that is so so hard to find in Australia: free wireless [...]

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